partners

LOCAL: NEW YORK, USA

• DREAM Project: The Diabetes Research, Education, and Action for Minorities (DREAM Project) is a five-year community based participatory research study NYU School of Medicine’s Center for the Study of Asian American Health. The goal of the project is to develop, implement, and test a Community Health Worker Program designed to improve diabetes control and diabetes-related health complications in the Bangladeshi community in New York City.

INTERNATIONAL: BANGLADESH

• Adhunika Bangladesh Society, a non-political non-profit NGO in Bangladesh which was born out of Adhunika Foundation that works towards promotion and protection of women’s rights and gender equality through capacity building and social mobilization.
• SAJIDA Foundation (SF),  is a Bangladeshi national NGO that works with underprivileged and low-income groups. The mission of SF is to improve the quality of life in the communities through sustainable, holistic and effective interventions. SF’s activities include providing microcredit, health services, microinsurance, mobile medical services in extremely remote areas, working with pavement dwellers etc.